Iíaac a type of°rill. have a fpirit fubduing his will unto the will of God. Let God fpeake ( as beedid to Abraham ) to a m r un- converted : Offer me upnow, notthy forme, but thy fin, thyBeare lulls ; thy Willy, thyrevenge, fwearing,Iying, thy Herodias, thy Dalilah, thy darling, thy pride ; take the knife into thyhand, andwith thineowne hands kill it, facrifice it, let out the life blood of it : Oh what grutching,gainfaying,rifing up againft the word,andhim by whom God comrnandeth ? Every naturals mans fin is his If;aac,his childe,his heft beloved,hisjoy and laugh- ter, flee cannot fpare him, hee cannot part with him. Though the Lordbee in never fogreat hafteand earneft, they bee not fo haftyas to rife upwith Abraham, early in themorning tooffer up their firms; a plaine evidence that as yet their nature was never changed, but they are in their Gives. Rule II. In dangerous, and difficult, or coftlycorn mandements, propp up thy faithwith confideration of Godspower and truth. So didAbraham in this difficult commandement ; whenhee might have confidered of a thoufand ftrong hinderances,he ftrengthened his faith by this, Heb. i 1.19. hee confidered that Godwas able to raife him up even from the dead, whenceafter a fort hee received him. Thus he fupportedbis faith in that word ofpromife, Rom.4.zo,z r . hee confidered not Sarah; dead body, bast was fully attired that God ( whom hee beleeved, who quickeneth the dead, ve;fe I7.) who had promifed, was alto able to doe it. Thefe twopropsupheld him,even the full aflurance of Gods truth in promifes, and power in performing them. In duties ofapparant danger, the cafting an eye onGods truth and power will bring them forward, elfe they never come on, Dan.3.17. Our God is able to deliver us, and heewill ; but ifnot, &c. So in the timeof danger and deepe diflreffe, call thy felfe on the might and truthof God, who quickneth the dead, who can fay to the dead, live, and they fhall live. In duties chargeable,
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